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A Scholarly Discernment of the Peterson Phenomenon: strengths, weaknesses, what it says about our cultural situation,  where he fits philosophically in comparison with great minds like Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur, Victor Frankl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Søren Kierkegaard, Northrop Frye, René Girard, John Milbank, Chantal Delsol, Bernard Lonergan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Kearney, George Grant, Jens Zimmermann, Jonathan Haidt, Alasdair McIntyre, C.S. Lewis, the Church Fathers. Students are hungry these days for wise and authentic public intellectuals to help them make sense of the world they inhabit. Negotiating late modernity is not for the faint of heart.

“The conflict between notions that human society constructs human psychology versus the idea that our societies reflect our psychological natures is one of the deepest disputes in the academy today.”

“The benefit of Jordan Peterson entering the cultural consciousness is that he and reactions to him provide a very useful way to understand the cultural-identity political split we are now in [polarization]. Our culture is going through an identity crisis. He’s the canary in the academic coal mine.”

Panel Discussion on Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”:

A Response to the Millennial Crisis of Identity

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St. John’s College Lounge, UBC

Thursday, November 15 @ 7:00 p.m.

Panel Moderator:  Dr. David Ley, Professor Emeritus Geography, UBC; Fellow of St. John’s College

Panelists:

Marvin McDonald is a professional psychologist, faculty member at Trinity Western University, a writer whose work engages theoretical psychology and positive psychology. A gracious interlocutor, Marvin loves dialogue across different worldview perspectives. He believes in a creative interface between philosophy and psychology, and articulates responses to his graduate student inquiries from a vast landscape of knowledge and insight.

Ron Dart teaches in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC. He is the most important writer about the Red Tory tradition in Canada with thirty-five published books, including the recent notable The North American High Tory Tradition. He has also written extensively on one of Canada’s top public intellectuals, George Grant. Ron is also a poet and a back country hiker. He has a number of YouTube videos on the Peterson phenomenon and is presently editing a book on Jordan Peterson.

Gordon Carkner,  a meta-educator with graduate students and faculty at UBC: GFCF (The Forum) & GCU which sponsor interdisciplinary educational forums like this one. He mentors students in a robust, well-rounded outlook on education. He has authored two books and co-authored one, most notably The Great Escape from Nihilism: rediscovering our passion in late modernity, a book which parallels the theme of the quest for meaning in Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. His PhD work was on the crisis of the late modern self, a dialogue between Michel Foucault and Charles Taylor

Nov 15, JP Panel Carkner Slides

Gordon Carkner on Peterson’s Recovery of Moral Agency in Dialogue with Charles Taylor 

Recovery of Meaning Amidst Suffering Dr. Gordon E. Carkner, author of The Great Escape from Nihilism.   (slides)

http://www.clarion-journal.com/clarion_journal_of_spirit/2018/02/jordan-peterson-transcending-tribalism-and-cloistered-virtues-ron-dart.html  Ron Dart, Political Philosopher on the contribution of  Jordan Peterson.

Ron Dart speaks of the Mythical and Mystical In Jordan Peterson

Nov 15, JP Panel Carkner Slides

Quote from Marvin McDonald: “In Peterson, we learn that responsibility is the path to meaning, and this character building exercise comes with suffering as part of the package.”

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